Natura 2000
Natura 2000 is the main instrument of European Union policy for the conservation of biodiversity.
It is a system of areas designed to protect a range of habitats, animal and plant species considered worthy of protection at continental level.
It includes more than 27,000 protected areas identified by the member states and covers more than 18% of the land surface and almost 6% of the sea surface.
What is the Natura 2000 Network?
This is an EU-wide ecological network established under the Habitats Directive 92/43/EEC to ensure the long-term maintenance of threatened or rare natural habitats and species of flora and fauna at EU level.
The Member States have identified more than 27,000 protected areas, corresponding to more than 18% of the land surface and almost 6% of the marine surface of Europe.
In Trentino, 136 Sites of Community Interest (SCI), 19 Special Protection Areas (SPAs), 54 habitats of which 12 priority ones have been identified.
Natura 2000: objectives and tools of an innovative approach
The main objective of Natura 2000 is to safeguard biodiversity by maintaining natural resources (natural and semi-natural habitats as well as wild flora and fauna) in a state of 'satisfactory conservation'.
Biodiversity contributes to sustainable development and must be promoted and maintained while taking into account social and cultural economic needs and regional and local particularities.
Publication date:Friday 08 July 2022
How the idea of the Natura 2000 Network was born
Since the 1980s, the concept of biodiversity and the problem of its progressive erosion have become the subject of numerous international conventions.
In 1992, with the signing of the Rio Convention on Biodiversity, the member states of the European Community adopted the objective of 'anticipating, preventing and attacking at source the causes of significant reduction or loss of biological diversity in view of its intrinsic value and its ecological, genetic, social, economic, scientific, educational, cultural, recreational and aesthetic values'.
Publication date:Friday 08 July 2022
The Natura 2000 network in Trentino
The Natura 2000 network in Trentino
In Trentino the Natura 2000 network has been implemented by identifying 136 Sites of Community Interest (SCI), 19 Special Protection Areas (SPAs), 54 habitats of which 12 are priority.
The more than 150 "nodes" of the Natura 2000 Network cover 28% of the provincial territory and, together with the Parks and Local Reserves, describe its naturalistic uniqueness.
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Impact assessment for Natura 2000 sites
Procedure introduced by European Directive 92/43/EEC 'Habitats', then implemented at national and also provincial level, in order to safeguard the integrity of Natura 2000 sites.